A Computer-executable method, system, and computer program product for managing tiers of data storage in a data storage environment using a data storage system, the Computer-executable method, system, and computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer-executable program code for using read signatures in replication, the code configured to enable the execution of initializing a data stack, updating a map of the data stack; and distributing the map of the data stack to a compute node.